Microsoft Office 15 technical preview kicks off — Summary: Microsoft is making available to select testers the technical preview of Office 15 client, server and services as of January 30. — Microsoft is kicking off the technical preview for its Office 15 client, servers and cloud services today, January 30.

Twitter could block super-injunction tweets — Twitter could bar British users from reading tweets that break future celebrity super-injunctions, a senior executive from the web firm has told MPs and Lords. — Ryan Giggs was named by tens of thousands of Twitter users as the holder of a super-injunction

FDA staffers sue agency over surveillance of personal e-mail — The Food and Drug Administration secretly monitored the personal e-mail of a group of its own scientists and doctors after they warned Congress that the agency was approving medical devices that they believed posed unacceptable risks to patients, government documents show.

Meet Bill Gates, the Man Who Changed Open Source Software — The meeting took place a week before Bill Gates retired from Microsoft, and the topic was open source software. — It was the summer of 2008, and for years, the open source community had viewed Microsoft as public enemy number one.

SnagFilms Grabs $7 Million to Share Indie Movies Online — It's easy to find blockbusters like “Transformers” online. What about movies like “Casino Jack and the United States of Money”? — That's where SnagFilms comes in. The start-up has distribution rights to more than 3,000 indie movies …

Symantec says pcAnywhere safe, offers free upgrade — (Reuters) - Symantec Corp said it is safe to use its pcAnywhere software for accessing remote PCs after it asked customers last week to disable the product because it put them at greater risk of being hacked.

Apple Fuels Hiring Amid Bubble 2.0 Concern — Hiring in the technology sector is gaining momentum. — Among U.S. technology companies with a market value of more than $100 million, almost 50 increased employment by more than half in the most recently reported two-year period, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.

Web Second, Mobile First — Fred Wilson wrote two posts in 2010 that were very influential with the startup community. — The titles were: — Mobile First, Web Second — Mobile First, Web Second (continued) — If you're in the minority that never read these posts - you should.

Google Fires Kenya Lead Over Mocality — Google has reportedly fired its Kenya country manager, Olga Arara-Kimani, over a fraudulent use of Mocality's data. — Nairobitech reported: … Sponsor — Nelson Mattos, who had earlier made a statement expressing the company's mortification …

Streaming held back — Over the last couple of weeks, I've looked at availability of movies and TV shows that came out in the past year. But what about movies that came two years ago? Are those more available today than they were a year ago? Let's look at the data. — 2010: Box Office Winners availability